Saturday, April 25, 2009

Storm-blasted trees


HICKORY TREES, SILVER CITY, MICHIGAN, APRIL 22, 2009

Pentax *ist DS
Sigma 17-70 at 17mm
1/750 sec. f11
ISO 400

These stunted, broken and windblown but durable hickories on the treeline of Lake Superior will leaf out by the end of May, but still denuded from winter they looked like "a father, a stepmother and her two stepdaughters," as a visitor called them the day they were photographed. Click on the photo for a more detailed version.

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